Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:33:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bill Ellis Subject: Re: Bird song on NPR In-Reply-To: <405F0C31.3090305@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I heard the broadcast tonight. When actual recordings of several birds were compared with the notes on a flute that Mathews had attributed to the birds, it seemed a weak approximation, largely because the bird songs tend to produce multiple notes simultaneously. Bill Ellis Eldersburg Carroll County -----Original Message----- From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On Behalf Of Sherry Peruzzi Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:54 AM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Bird song on NPR It's actually going to be broadcast on All Things Considered some time this afternoon: "F. Schuyler Mathews published a guide to wild birds 100 years ago in which he transcribed birds' songs into musical notation and sought to capture their essence in prose. We talk with artist Judy Pelikan, whose illustrations update Mathews' classic 'Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music.' " If you miss hearing it on the radio -- or want to hear it again! -- the audio will be available on the website after 7:30 pm today: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/ Sherry Lydia Schindler wrote: > NPR is promoting a piece on a new description of/approach to bird song > sometime this morning. > > Lydia Schindler > Darnestown, MD > ================================================================= ====== To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ================================================================= ====== ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================